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Around his campaign. where the time is now, for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure, to make sure, that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative go up against barack obama, who can take him on every issue. [cheers and applause] jon: let s talk about it with mary katharine ham, a contributor to the daily caller and a fox news contributor. peter mirajanian. former advisor to the clinton-for and gore-lieberman campaigns? would you like to see newt gingrich out of the race? first thing any analyst needs to ask themselves when they re asked should newt get out of the race, is he standing right behind me? then deal with it. so here s the thing. for conservatives i think many conservatives believe they want a more conservative candidate than romney. at this point, newt is ....
Banking on the fact that many of them think he is that guy. but the polling and actual wins and delegate count don t really show that. i think santorum certainly has the better rationale for continuing and if it is gingrich and santorum splitting the conservative vote as it has been to some extent until now, that behooves romney. i m not sure that works for conservatives. gingrich is banking on nobody wants anybody to be pushed out of the race and that is argument he is making and a lot of conservatives are looking at it and not giving his strategy. jon: that is a bit of a echo what newt himself said, peter. he said him staying in the race is not bad for the republican party but it would be bad for mitt romney if he says in the race. is he right? well, i think clearly newt is the rodney dangerfield of the republican field right now and he is, you know, the fact of the matter is mary katherine is right. he is splitting the ....
no. it certainly doesn t cause us to quake but certainly would have cause romney to quake. this is somebody ahead in delegates. well-positioned and run a very aggressive campaign and won some big states and is out in front and now they re still talk among the republican establishment that there is a, as you say, santorum-gingrich alliance that is deeply troubling if you re the romney people. we have never seen an election like this in our lifetimes where it is so contested with three candidates this late in the game. it will be really interesting, jon, going forward. look the other story . jon: peter, i m sorry, we ll have to save your other story for another day. i m sorry about that. it is interesting to watch. peter and mary katherine, thank you both. thank you. jenna: we have to talk about strategy and talk about money as well. you have super pacs and billionaire donors but the 2012 presidential race is turning out to be the cheapest one in years, the ....
Third. i was not terribly he was going to take mississippi and alabama by storm. he has louisiana ahead. he will probably argue we need to do more debates. of course that is where he shines and gets a lot of his boost from but at this point santorum looking ahead, the inevitability argument is not a strong one i agree. but romney is piling up more delegates. and he did last night even though he didn t get the sort of spiritual top line headline win that he needs he got a technical win in that he got more delegates. as you move down the line, santorum doesn t have a whole lot of winner take all chances to build that especially if gingrich stays in the race. gingrich has a developed following among some folks but conservatives are looking at santorum as the guy who peaked and never fell off dramatically and they trust him that way. jon: peter, what about alliance yesterday, gingrich, santorum ticket, does that cause democrats to quake. ....